Improvement in car-cottfling



R11-'X & REXgJr.

N Car Coupling. i Y y No. 100,204. Patented Aug. 0,1070.

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yLetters'Patent N 106,204, dated August V9, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARJCOUPLING.

The Schedine referred to in these Letters Patent and makhg pa'rt of theBanu To alLwhoin it may concern: A v

Be it known that we, WlLLIAM A. REX and J osnee; M. REX,Jr., of Butler,in the county of De Kalb and yState of Indiana, have invented a new and.improved Car-Coupling; and we-do hereby declare that the following is avfull, clear-,and exact descrip vtion thereof', which will enable othersskilled .in the fart to make and nsethe same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing formingpart of thisspeciiication. v

My invention,relatesto devices much .usedffor coupling' cars, and thenature thereof consistsin the arrangement vot' parts, jhereinafterdescribed.

The said coupling-pins are provided with oonnect ing-rods and levers,arranged/lor raising them from Ithe top sides oi' ythe cars.

Figure l represents a front elevation of a car prol vided. with ourimproved coupling devices, and

Figure 2 is ahorizontal section of a pair of couplings.

Similar' letters of reference indicate correspomiling The buffer-heads Aare madehollow at the ends,

i 'for the receptionA of the draw-links Bin the usualv way,

and'in thesehollow spaces are provided the curve-.jl Aspring jaws, theends of'\vlricli,`near the mouths'o the buffers, are widely sepa-rated,so as to receive the links when forced in, and guide them to the properposition to receive the pins D, opposite which the said jaws approacheach other when' the links are disconnected,

so nearly as to serve as a support to hold the bolts up until they are.forced open by the entering link, and the boltallowed to fall, ixrdoingwhich it passes through the link.

These jaws may be. arranged in any preferred way, to' operate nthemanner described, being either curved bars of metal pivoted at thcrear ends E, and provided with sprin'gsllT to' force them together, o1'the bars themselves may be springs, and rigidly' connectedat the' rearto the sides of the buffers, or to bolts traversing them in any way.

We propose to provide braces G above the bufi'ers, to support andguide'thc pins vertically, and we make enlargements, H, on the latter,to yprevent falling too far, and being'drawn too high by the rods I orlevers K, which we provide for raising the bolts when standingr by thesides of the cars or on the tops.`

The jaws vare grooved at the points where they bear against the sides ofthe link, so that when a link is projecting from one buffer it will besupport-ed horizontally for entering the buierof an approaching can, andthereby the cars may be coupled self-actingly.

The pins may also be held up to admit the pins by spring catches L onthe levers K taking into notches in the side of the car.

Having thus described our invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The arrangement of the spring catclnlever K L, rod I,and the connecting-link by which the pin D is operated, all-as shown anddescribed. W. A. REX.

J. M. REX, JR.

`Witnesses:

ABRM. J. PINCHE; O. H. Woonoox.4

